Master Chef @ Women's Conference

Friday and Saturday saw me appointed as Head Chef at the Kyampisi Church Women's Conference.

After cutting up loads of tomatoes and onions, we tossed them into a very large stainless steel boiler together with oil and a little water. After mixing stock powder and salt into the darkening 'sauce' for about 15 minutes, we added about 30 littes of water. All this was mixed with a metre-long wooden stirring stick that made me feel like a wizard mixing a potion - although my akubra wasn't quite as pointy as a wizard's hat!

After letting the dark brown 'gravy' come to the boil we added the rice that I had sifted earlier in the morning. Once the rice had soaked up all the gravy, we added banana leaves to the top of the boiler to keep in the heat.

Interestingly, I think the men of Kyampisi thought I was the 'Master Chef'. The truth is that I was actually asking them a lot of questions and drawing on their experience.

I guess perspective is an interesting reality!